Topic: mail from outside (user unknown)

[kevin Manderson]

Looks similar to the problem I and a number of others have queried. Appears to be a problem with 5.1.2. SME sometimes will accept mail and sometimes won't. I can get 3 e-mails in a row with identical addresses and one is bounced.

I have basically given up on SME for mail and am currently building a sendmail based mail server. I know that will work.

Regards
kevin

[Michiel de Jager]

Well,

It isn't the same problem, for I have it with 5.1.2 and with 5.5b9
and it hasn't worked one time.

kevin Manderson wrote:
>
> Looks similar to the problem I and a number of others have
> queried. Appears to be a problem with 5.1.2. SME sometimes
> will accept mail and sometimes won't. I can get 3 e-mails in
> a row with identical addresses and one is bounced.
>
> I have basically given up on SME for mail and am currently
> building a sendmail based mail server. I know that will work.
>
> Regards
> kevin

[Ruusvuu]

Tom Carroll wrote:
>
> You should check out Nathan Fowlers pop-before-smtp.  It may
> be what you are looking for.
>
> http://www.stickit.nu/pop-before-smtp
>
> There is a pretty good thread about it's security here:
>
> http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14166.msg53873#msg53873
>
>
> Tom

Tom!

I did this - everything seemed to go as outlined.
I don't know what's going on for some folks, but I do not have a problem that I know of.

[Nathan Fowler]

I have seen issues where the smtpd_check_rules file was corrupt and it did cause some odd behavior.  If you are willing to send /var/spool/smtpd/etc/smtpd_check_rules I could look it over and hopefully isolate the problem.

Hope this helped,
Nathan

[Michiel de Jager]

But I don't have such a file, I have just a basic e-smith installation.

Nathan Fowler wrote:
>
> I have seen issues where the smtpd_check_rules file was
> corrupt and it did cause some odd behavior.  If you are
> willing to send /var/spool/smtpd/etc/smtpd_check_rules I
> could look it over and hopefully isolate the problem.
>
> Hope this helped,
> Nathan

[Nathan Fowler]

If you don't have the file /var/spool/smtpd/etc/smtpd_check_rules then that would be why you are unable to receive incoming mail.

[Michiel de Jager]

How can I fix this?

Nathan Fowler wrote:
>
> If you don't have the file
> /var/spool/smtpd/etc/smtpd_check_rules then that would be why
> you are unable to receive incoming mail.

[Michiel de Jager]

I also dont have the smtpd/etc/ directory in my var/spool directory

Nathan Fowler wrote:
>
> If you don't have the file
> /var/spool/smtpd/etc/smtpd_check_rules then that would be why
> you are unable to receive incoming mail.

[Dan Brown]

Yes, you do have such a file, it's part of the basic installation.

[Nathan Fowler]

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /var/spool/smtpd/etc/smtpd_check_rules

ls -la /var/spool/smtpd/etc/|grep smtpd_check_rules

And, yes Dan is correct, this is part of the default installation and you should have this file.

[Michiel de Jager]

I have installed it on two machines, several times, and never had that file.

I also have a pc where I have no problems and there isn't the file either

Dan Brown wrote:
>
> Yes, you do have such a file, it's part of the basic
> installation.

[Michiel de Jager]

When I do that I get the message: no templates where found for ........

I think I don't need this file at all

Nathan Fowler wrote:
>
> /sbin/e-smith/expand-template
> /var/spool/smtpd/etc/smtpd_check_rules
>
> ls -la /var/spool/smtpd/etc/|grep smtpd_check_rules
>
> And, yes Dan is correct, this is part of the default
> installation and you should have this file.

[Nathan Fowler]

If you want your SMTPD to receive incoming mail, you need this file.  If you don't have this file, you have either a buggy installation of E-Smith, or you have deleted the template directory or the file itself.

What version of E-Smith do you have?  I recommend you reinstall...

[Michiel de Jager]

At he moment I am running 5.5b9 but a have the same with 5.1.2

Nathan Fowler wrote:
>
> If you want your SMTPD to receive incoming mail, you need
> this file.  If you don't have this file, you have either a
> buggy installation of E-Smith, or you have deleted the
> template directory or the file itself.
>
> What version of E-Smith do you have?  I recommend you
> reinstall...

[Nathan Fowler]

I have no idea why you don't have this file, you should.  I'm 4.1.2 and I have this file.  5.5 folks have this file as well.  Not having this file is your problem.

Nathan